State of Georgia

The State of Georgia is a state located in the American South region of the United States. The state was established in 1732, the last of the Thirteen Colonies, and it was named for King George II of Great Britain. On 2 January 1788, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the US Constitution, and on 19 January 1861 it was one of the first seven states to secede to form the Confederate States of America. On 15 July 1870, the state was the last to be restored to the union during Reconstruction. Nicknamed "the Peach State", Georgia is known for its agriculture, which historically had led to Georgia becoming a slave state. In addition, it was historically a major trading state due to Savannah's status as a major port city on the East Coast, enabling the province to trade with the British Isles in Great Britain proper. During the 1800s and 1900s, Georgia experienced a transformation from a plantation state into an agricultural state, with plantations run by slaves being replaced by farms run by all races; the Ku Klux Klan was active in the state from Stone Mountain. Today, Georgia is an ethnic mixture of whites and African-Americans, and the state had a population of 10,214,860 people in 2015.